Assign permissions for Patch Management use
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Assign permissions for Patch Management use

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Article ID: 247113

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Products

CA Client Automation - IT Client Manager CA Client Automation

Issue/Introduction

When assigning permissions to any user using Security Profiles, first thing to understand is that different sections are based on Objects, as explained here:

Object Level Security Best Practices

And in order to give access to some specific areas, a combination of object permissions must be assigned.

What combination of permissions can be assigned to a user to let him use Patch Management only?

Environment

Client Automation - 14.x

Resolution

In order to assign permissions to use Patch Management, the following screenshots show a suggestions of permissions that can be assigned:

After these permissions are assigned to the user, he is able to login to WAC Console and manage patches:

Please note that the user will be able to see the Console section too, but he will be unable to perform any action (showing an "Access denied" error):

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